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Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 is a rapid application deployment tool that lets power users and administrators build data-centric business applications for the desktop, cloud, and Web in just a few clicks, with no code required. But more advanced developers and business users will hunger for more: how do you design complex screens? How do you query data using LINQ and other syntax structures? How do you secure your application?

Pro Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Development answers these questions and more as authors Tim Leung and Yann Duran - both awarded Microsoft 2011 Community Contributor Awards for their LightSwitch expertise - cover this breakthrough product and its operations and structure under the covers.

For serious developers building, enhancing and deploying advanced business applications using LightSwitch, Pro Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Development is the guide for going beyond the "click-and-you´re-done" interface, while still maintaining the elegance and convenience of rapid application development.

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Part One - LightSwitch Concepts
1 Forms Over Data, and Beyond
2 Working With Visual Studio
Part Two - Working With Data
3 Designing Data
4 Accessing Data
5 Validating Data
6 Querying Data
Part Three – Interacting with Data
7 Creating and Using RIA Services
8 Creating and Using Screens
9 Creating and Using Custom Controls
10 Creating and Using Extensions
Part Four - Getting Data Out
11 Creating and Displaying Reports
12 Creating and Sending Emails
Part Five - Securing Your Application
13 Authenticating Your Users
14 Authorizing Your Users
15 Auditing What Your Users Do
Part Six - Deployment
16 Deploying Your Application
17 When Things Don´t Go Quite Right

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Tim Leung is a professional software developer based in England. For the past 12 years, he has specialized in enterprise application development using products from the Microsoft technology stack. In particular, he possesses deep knowledge of the Microsoft .NET Framework and SQL Server. He is an active member of the U.K. developer community and often delivers presentations on technical topics. He is also a chartered member of the British Computer Society. He is passionate about the concept of rapid application development and was awarded the Microsoft Community Contributor Award in 2011 for contributions to the LightSwitch community.

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